"President Obama told attendees at a high-dollar Manhattan fundraiser Wednesday night that the Democratic Party would be in better shape if he "could just get a million surplus votes in Brooklyn" and move them to Nebraska, where Tea Party conservatives scored a major win in Tuesday's primary.

Complaining that he had a "drawerful" of things left to do, the president said he had been stymied because "Washington doesn't work."

. . . . Obama's trip to New York was part of a furious fundraising push of late, as Democrats look to stockpile cash ahead of the 2014 midterm elections. The events were Obama's 20th and 21st of 2014, and came on the heels of a trip to California last week where Obama hosted five separate fundraising events. According to CBS News's Mark Knoller, Obama has attended 59 events benefitting Democrats this cycle.

. . . . Obama again voiced concerns to Democrats that there's "congenital disease" and a "structural problem" within the party because "our voters don't show up" for midterm elections."